From srctran@world.std.com  Tue May  8 21:57:29 2001
From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:57:29 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Patents] Patents required for investment?
Message-ID: <200105082057.QAA14179@world.std.com>

>The patent system is not about giving venture capitalists or IP lawyers
>what they 'demand'.  It is about striking a balance between limited
>monopoly and open competition, in the public interest.

Yet one more patenting aspect that software technology shares with all
other areas of technology.  You guys are starting to come up with some
pretty good reasons why the patentability of software should be no
different than anything else, since they all share so many of the same
problems and concerns.

Greg Aharonian


